Stationer. (Newspaper item)

Newspaper article: "A word to Merchants and Others. We are told that Mr. R. Jones, a stationer, on Mechanic St., has been soliciting job printing from the public of Galveston, pretending that he can have it executed in New Orleans at less than city prices. If all men were printers it would be unnecessary to expose the falsehood of this statement, but as few persons have any technical knowledge of the printing business, and the dishonest tricks that may be resorted to by the unscrupulous, we take occasion to say a word on this subject. What man, ordering a job of printing, can make even an approximate guess of its value. Very few it follows therefore, they must depend on the representations of those, with whom they deal, and it is always much safer to rely on permanent business men than on wanderers. Again, nothing is more easy than to save twenty per cent by inferior material, or slovenly press work. We have known dishonest printers to give but 700 cards or bills for a thousand. Who ever pleases to count them. But there is above all this a higher moral obligation to discountenance all such persons. Merchants making this their home are directly interested in the support of every businessman in the city. Their success is his success, His money is spent here and serves to enrich them. Those who go to New Orleans for what they can get here, will but illustrate the old proverb of him who went abroad for wool and came home shorn."